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Jessica Lange

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
82

Gender
Female

Birthday
April 20, 1949 (77 years old)

Place of Birth
Cloquet, Minnesota, USA

Jessica Lange

Biography

Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American actress. She is the 13th actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, along with a Screen Actors Guild Award and five Golden Globe Awards.

Lange made her professional film debut in Dino De Laurentiis's 1976 remake of the 1933 action-adventure classic King Kong, for which she also won her first Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. In 1979, she starred in the acclaimed musical film All That Jazz. In 1983, she won her second Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a soap opera star in Tootsie (1982) and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled actress Frances Farmer in Frances (1982). Lange received three more nominations for Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985) and Music Box (1989), before winning her third Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a bipolar housewife in Blue Sky (1994).

In 2010, Lange won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt Big Edie in HBO's Grey Gardens (2009). Between 2011 and 2014, she won her first Screen Actors Guild Award, first Critics Choice Award, fifth Golden Globe Award, three Dorian Awards and her second and third Emmy Awards for her performances in the first, second and third seasons of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story (2011–2015, 2018). In 2016, Lange won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. She also had a supporting role in Louis C.K.'s Peabody Award-winning web series Horace and Pete. In 2017, for her portrayal of actress Joan Crawford in the miniseries Feud, Lange received her eighth Emmy, 16th Golden Globe, sixth Screen Actors Guild Award and second TCA Award nominations. In 2019, she received a tenth Emmy nomination for her performance in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.

Lange is also a photographer with four published books of photography. She has been a foster parent and holds a Goodwill Ambassador position for UNICEF, specializing in HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia.

Known For

Acting

2025Long Day's Journey into Nightas Mary Tyrone
2024The Great Lillian Hallas Lillian Hall
2023Marloweas Dorothy Quincannon
2019The Politicianas Dusty Jackson
2018Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Discoas Self
2017FEUDas Joan Crawford
2017FEUDas Lillie Mae Faulk
2016Wild Oatsas Maddie
2016Horace and Peteas Marsha
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbertas Self - Guest
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporteras Self
2014The Gambleras Roberta
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actorsas Self
2014Scorsese's Womenas Star
2014Late Night with Seth Meyersas Self - Guest
2014In Secretas Madame Raquin
2012Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Storyas Self
2012Shepard & Darkas Self (archive footage)
2012The Vowas Rita Thornton
2011American Horror Storyas Constance Langdon
2011American Horror Storyas Elsa Mars
2011American Horror Storyas Fiona Goode
2011American Horror Storyas Sister Jude Martin
2009Grey Gardensas Big Edie
2008A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'as Self
2007Sybilas Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
2006Bonnevilleas Arvilla Holden
2005The Peace!as Self
2005Neverwasas Katherine Pierson
2005El Fantasma de la Libertad o cuánto valen 3 mil toneladas de uranio empobrecidoas Self
2005Don't Come Knockingas Doreen
2005Broken Flowersas Carmen
2004Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlinesas Self - Narrator (voice)
2003Big Fishas Sandra Bloom (senior)
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Showas Self
2003Masked and Anonymousas Nina Veronica
2003Prozac Nationas Mrs. Wurtzel
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!as Self - Guest
2003Normalas Irma Applewood
2001The Making of 'Cape Fear'as Self
2001A Hollywood Life: Remembering Francesas Herself
1999Titusas Tamora
1998Cousin Betteas Cousin Bette
1998Hushas Martha Baring
1997A Thousand Acresas Ginny Cook Smith
1997The Viewas Self
1995A Streetcar Named Desireas Blanche DuBois
1995Rob Royas Mary MacGregor
1995Losing Isaiahas Margaret Lewin
1994Blue Skyas Carly Marshall
1994Inside the Actors Studioas Self
1993Intimate Portraitas Self
1993Late Show with David Lettermanas Self - Guest
1992Night and the Cityas Helen Nasseros
1992O Pioneers!as Alexandra Bergson
1991Cape Fearas Leigh Bowden
1990Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyondas Self - Host
1990Men Don't Leaveas Beth Macauley
1989Music Boxas Ann Talbot
1988Far Northas Kate
1988Everybody's All-Americanas Babs Rogers Grey
1986King Kong Livesas Dwan (archive footage)
1986Crimes of the Heartas Meg Magrath
1985Sweet Dreamsas Patsy Cline
1984Hollywood '84as Self
1984Countryas Jewell Ivy
1984Cat on a Hot Tin Roofas Maggie
1983Notre Dame de la Croisetteas Self (uncredited)
1982Tootsieas Julie Nichols
1982Francesas Frances Farmer
1982American Playhouseas Maggie Pollitt
1982The Making of 'Tootsie'as Self
1981The Postman Always Rings Twiceas Cora Papadakis
1980How to Beat the High Cost of Livingas Louise
1979All That Jazzas Angelique
1976King Kongas Dwan
1973The American Film Institute Salute to ...as Self
1953The Oscarsas Self
1952Todayas Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fameas Alexandra Bergson
1948Bambias Self
The Year of Magical Thinkingas Joan Didion

Production

2024The Great Lillian Hall...Executive Producer
2017FEUD...Producer
1984Country...Producer